Anthony Ferro Associate Professor, Dance (Ballet) BA from Marymount Manhattan College MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts from Goddard College Anthony Ferro’s career spans over thirty-eight years of international experience in the fields of classical ballet and modern dance, theatre, opera, film and video. His solo credits include the companies of Twyla Tharp, Louis Falco, Dennis Wayne, Kazuko Hirabiyashi as well as The Metropolitan Opera and The Atlanta Ballet. Artistic Director to the companies of Dance South, Atlanta, and Ballet Midland, Texas, he founded the Dance Department for the Fine Arts Division of Midland College. Mr. Ferro also served as resident choreographer for Theatre Thalia and taught at the Balett Akademien in Gothenburg, Sweden (1989-1996). Mr. Ferro, Associate Professor of Dance at Marymount Manhattan College, holds an MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts from Goddard College, Vermont, and a BA in Dance from MMC, where he has been a faculty member since 1998. Mr. Ferro began his concert dance training with instructor Patricia Heigel-Tanner at Pennsylvania State University and later joined Juilliard's Dance Division under the tutelage of Alfredo Corvino, Hector Zaraspe and Daniel Lewis. His extensive contributions to community-based outreach programs earned him awards from the National Endowment for the Arts in 1983 and 1984. Mr. Ferro, along with choreographer-educator James Sutton, Associate Arts Professor, Tisch School of the Arts/New York University, performed an evening of dances at the Merce Cunningham Studio in New York, 2007 and 2009.